Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[Stirchley Villain]

Some teams will come up and maybe go down. They may well come up and go back down again. Villa however will always be up...

[JJ-AV]

Striker next. It'll be one of Adebayor or Balotelli, I reckon.

[dave shelley]

May I respectfully suggest, no and no.  Just my opinion.

[oldtimernow]

I like how the first player linked on this thread is Jake Livermore. How a few weeks change things.

And the year before wasn't it Dan Gosling who ended up playing against us last weekend?

[Lastfootstamper]

Just as an gauge, our pitiful performance last season still produced a finishing position better than 64 of the 88 seasons in Southamptons history, so they can fuck off whatever period they want to judge.

Brilliant image in my head of a seething Internet Warrior hunched over a keyboard, large mug of strong coffee, pen and pad at hand, muttering "f@#king Southampton? SOUTHAMPTON??? Where's those f@#king all-time league tables?", as everyone else in the office thinks 'he's at it again...'

[ozzjim]

The number 10 shirt is still free. Got to think there is something in the pipe line. Maybe the lad from Lazio will take it if we get him.

[Toronto Villa]

Yeh I actually thought Adama would take 10. So maybe eu are keeping it for someone special. I don't think I could handle another surprise signing, but fuck it lets do it anyway!

[nodge]

We can take the piss out of Southampton but remember they are in Europe and the last 5-10 years has produced

Gareth Bale
Theo Walcott
Alex Chamberlian
Adam Lallana
Luke Shaw

Turned Ricky Lambert into an England international and finish it top 7

We finished in bottom5 sold our best players and produced

Weinmann
Ridgwell
Moore
etc etc

If we had their players and our combined potential we been in the champions league!

 

You mean if we had their players and kept them, which they didn't.  Apart from Lallana they all left when they were old enough to get served in a pub didn't they?
Walcott left when he was an embryo ffs.

[supertom]

Anyone else getting that feeling you used to get as a kid at Christmas? A particularly fantastic Christmas?
I am.
I know it may go knockers up but I'm genuinely excited and as positive as I've felt in years. I ruddy love Tim.

[aj2k77]

Just as an gauge, our pitiful performance last season still produced a finishing position better than 64 of the 88 seasons in Southamptons history, so they can fuck off whatever period they want to judge.

Brilliant image in my head of a seething Internet Warrior hunched over a keyboard, large mug of strong coffee, pen and pad at hand, muttering "f@#king Southampton? SOUTHAMPTON??? Where's those f@#king all-time league tables?", as everyone else in the office thinks 'he's at it again...'

Damn right, just got home, straight in to my dressing gown and brown slippers but I can't get comfortable with this playing on my mind. A club who's old ground looked like Digbeth dog kennels and new ground that is like every other one built in the last 20 years...but red. If he comes back I'm dropping average 20 yr attendance and position on him.

These new age fans, treat a history like it's some kind of disease, until they get one for themselves.

[aj2k77]

Yeh I actually thought Adama would take 10. So maybe eu are keeping it for someone special. I don't think I could handle another surprise signing, but fuck it lets do it anyway!

Adebayor played number 10 for Spurs.

[Percy McCarthy]

Just as an gauge, our pitiful performance last season still produced a finishing position better than 64 of the 88 seasons in Southamptons history, so they can fuck off whatever period they want to judge.

Brilliant image in my head of a seething Internet Warrior hunched over a keyboard, large mug of strong coffee, pen and pad at hand, muttering "f@#king Southampton? SOUTHAMPTON??? Where's those f@#king all-time league tables?", as everyone else in the office thinks 'he's at it again...'

Damn right, just got home, straight in to my dressing gown and brown slippers but I can't get comfortable with this playing on my mind. A club who's old ground looked like Digbeth dog kennels and new ground that is like every other one built in the last 20 years...but red. If he comes back I'm dropping average 20 yr attendance and position on him.

These new age fans, treat a history like it's some kind of disease, until they get one for themselves.

You're good, but you need a better username.

AK47 I reckon.

[The Man With A Stick]

I keep reading about this academy that Southampton have, but to be honest, Bale aside I'm not raving about any of the players it's produced. They're okay but nothing to shout from the rooftops about.

And it must be AMAZING for your club to produce all of these stunners and have them leave at the first hint of interest from somewhere else.

One of their best players came from our academy.  Says it all really.

[Steve R]

Depends on how you measure the success of an academy. It' not all about producing one excellent player, nor about mugging off clubs like Liverpool and Spurs with duds.

I am just guessing but I suspect that over that last, say, 15 years,Villa's academy has produced more players that have made a decent living playing top flight football and more internationals.

As a complete aside, what did Southampton actually get out of Bale? He left at 17 after 40 games for something like 7mill. It was a lot for a teenager at the time but sod all in the grand order of things.

If you are lucky enough to turn up a once in a generation player you really should get a lot more out of it than that.

[CT Villan]

Thank goodness then that we only paid 8.5m during the same window for the 'Galactico' that was Nigel Reo-Coker (shudder).